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Post by minakomina on Jan 9, 2015 19:47:05 GMT
As my first Thread,i'm pleased to be here
I know theres already a page FuckYeahSoWeird,but how about more art? I dunno,its very poor.
How about if you have an tumblr friend reccomend So weird to him/her?
Thanks for reading ^^
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Post by LittleDuck on Jan 9, 2015 20:39:22 GMT
Welcome to the forum, minakomina! There are a few more So Weird blogs on tumblr: fi-phillips, So Weird Realizations, and allsoweird. I think it's hard to make So Weird popular on tumblr because "so weird" is such a common phrase that the tag for the show is filled with so many random posts about anything and everything. I reblog So Weird stuff on my personal blog pretty often and usually the only people who reblog it from me are the same people I know from this So Weird community . A couple times other people have reblogged SW stuff from my personal blog, but not very often. It seems like the type of show people really have to be into in order to be interested in reblogging it on tumblr. Maybe directing telling someone to check it out would make them more inclined to, though! Now that you mention it, I don't think I've ever really seen So Weird fan art. We do need some! If you're an artistic person, you should definitely make some!!
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Post by Rockerbaby on Jan 9, 2015 21:38:39 GMT
It's easier said than done, I'm afraid. We've tried a few things to generate interest/discussion of the show on Tumblr. We made one of those silly but fun PowerPoint posts, we've been making posts for livestreams for ages now, and we even came up with a 30 Days of So Weird meme in the hopes that people would talk about their own experiences with the show on their own blogs. We have had limited success, but fun doing it.
As Cat said, the So Weird tag is a mess. I track it, but 99% of the stuff posted in that tag has nothing to do with the show. If anyone is looking for So Weird related stuff on that tag, they probably give up pretty quickly just by looking at the first page or so of posts. However, if they search for So Weird, there are our So Weird blogs suggested at the top, so that's good.
I've been making gifsets on fi-phillips since April and am approaching 100 gifsets now. I have tried tagging my posts in a variety of tags (Disney Channel, Disney, 90s tv, Zoog Disney, actors' names, etc.) but haven't noticed much of a difference. The quality of my stuff is not great, though we recently got access to better quality episodes so they're getting better. They'll never be wonderful. I think my most popular gifset has 90 notes. Most get 20 or less and several have 0. I get a lot of likes but few reblogs, which I think is standard for any gifset maker. I made the blog as a tribute more than anything, so it doesn't bother me all that much. It's been fun. I kind of hoped that someone with better skills than me, more time, and Photoshop would see my gifsets, think those look awful, and want to make their own, but alas.
Timing is everything on Tumblr, and it's hard to figure out when to post stuff.
I think we're all open to suggestions. The main thing is that people do not know what this show is. Probably <10% of people who talk about "old Disney Channel" mention So Weird. There is a post on there with a huge number of notes (in the 100,000s) that talks about how female leads on Disney Channel have been great with no reference to Fi or Annie. It's frustrating, but what can you do? It would be easier if So Weird had been released in any format, but it hasn't been.
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Post by Kathie on Jan 10, 2015 22:04:07 GMT
To get posts popular on tumblr really has to do with luck. What I've also noticed if that if your post gets reblogged by a popular blog, then of course that means more viewers thus more notes.
The Fuckyeahsoweird blog has 584 followers right now which isn't too bad.
It's just difficult..
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Post by Rockerbaby on Jan 11, 2015 0:28:47 GMT
That's more than I was expecting, krazy! Cool. I'm at 56, and 14 of those are from the last month. Don't know where they're coming from. I haven't been posting much.
It really is about luck, and I think it's hard for something to become better known through tumblr if few people know about it as it is and there is no official way to watch it.
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Post by LittleDuck on Jan 15, 2015 19:47:42 GMT
Wait I'm confused. Krazy do you help run the fuckyeahsoweird blog now? I always thought it was run by Gabby.
But yeah, I haven't updated the so weird realization blog in ages and I still get random followers out of nowhere. I'm at 179 right now.
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Post by Kathie on Jan 15, 2015 22:32:40 GMT
Wait I'm confused. Krazy do you help run the fuckyeahsoweird blog now? I always thought it was run by Gabby. But yeah, I haven't updated the so weird realization blog in ages and I still get random followers out of nowhere. I'm at 179 right now. Yup, Gabby and I co-run it
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Post by LittleDuck on Jan 16, 2015 1:18:45 GMT
Ohhh I never knew that! Awesome.
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